By sampeckham on

This may be a really obvious question, but I haven't quite got my head around all things Drupal yet.

Anyway, I trying to create several pages that just show blocks (created in Views), each block is designed to show titles and teasers of recent items. In one case I have two blocks showing the last 10 items of news split into 2 respective categories. I'd like these to show in 2 columns, side by side, and create a url path of www.mysite.com/news

I've created the blocks fine, but I'm not sure how to assign them to a "news" page.

How do I create a new page with a menu item that will just show these two blocks?

I have CCK, Views and PathAuto installed, but can't figure out how I should use them to generate this page.

Thanks

S

⋅ Categories: Drupal 6.x

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vm commented

create a page content type, name it.
link your menu iitem to it
set your blocks on it using the block visibility settings in adminsiter -> blocks -> configure for the blocks that you want to alter

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sampeckham commented

Many Thanks for that idea Misunderstood, worked fine for my needs, although it doesn't strike me as an ideal approach, being that you have to create an empty content item. I guess Panels is the more 'formal' solution? I've seen the video and demo of what it can do, but until it's 6.x ready it's not an option.

S

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Chad_Dupuis commented

You can also have the blocks and/or other content show up in ways different from the rest of your site with the use of panels (http://drupal.org/project/panels).

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vm commented

before you head down the panels.module road, understand there is no 6.x version yet.

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sampeckham commented

I realise now I could use Views to generate a page instead of block, and add more blocks to that page. However, you loose some ability to arrange content, as the view page is in a fixed place.